The nursing community posts articles on line about how to better practice nursing and to keep procedures up to date. Today I read an interesting article about how infections spread in hospitals. According to research conducted by the Center for Disease Control(CDC), there is a significant amount of patients that contract diseases while at a hospital. About 1 out of every 25 people conduct some sort of infection while already in a hospital. The most common ways for this to happen "include central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), surgical site infections (SSIs), Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infections, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia bloodstream infections" (nursezone.com). I never knew that in hospital infections were such a prominent thing and it is pretty scary to think that 1/25 people contract something. A hospital is supposed to be where you get better now contract more diseases. According to the article the RN is the first line of defense against spreading disease, and the best way to do this is by always checking up on patients and using the cleanliest way of doing everything. Always using fresh equipment and gloves and cleaning off any surface that you are injecting or cutting thoroughly. Hopefully as technology in the medical field advances this will become less of a problem, and hospitals can get back to help instead of infecting.
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It is terrible to know that every time when I went to the hospital, I would have 1/25 chance to contract disease. I finally understand why my parents suggest me not to go to hospital frequently, so that I would like to stay on bed and rest if I get cold or something not so severe.
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